Digital storytelling

After reading some articles about digital storytelling, I found that digital storytelling is a very useful tool for my future teaching. Then I will introduce the useful tool to you.

                According to 7 things you should know about storytelling , digital storytelling is the practice of combination narrative with digital content, including images, sound and video to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. Sophisticated digital stories can be interactive movies that include highly produced audio and visual effects, but a set of slides with corresponding narration or music constitutes a basic digital stories can be instructional, persuasive historical and reflective.

                Usually story telling are applies like this. Students have to choose their own topic and then they  have to write a script about the topic. Next, small group are formed. In small groups , students can do the story circle. During the process, students would learn how to respect other’s advice and how to give suggestions.

                According to The educational uses of storytelling , Digital storytelling can be used as an instructional tool for teachers and also a learning tool for students. For teachers, digital storytelling can facilitate discussion about the topics in classroom and make the abstract content more understandable. For students, they can first choose a topic and then choose a particular point of view and tell stories of their own. During the process of telling story, students can improve their communication skills such as organizing ideas, ask questions and express opinions. In addition, when the story telling is uploaded on the website, students can give suggestions to each other can learn how to  critique.

                I think digital storytelling is a very useful tool for language teaching.